"Partisan Divides Complicate Push For Disaster Aid"
"Lawmakers are navigating partisan divides as they seek to pass a bipartisan disaster aid bill by the end of the year."
Source: The Hill, 12/03/2024
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"Handful Of Countries Responsible For Climate Crisis, Top Court Told"
"A handful of countries should be held legally responsible for the ongoing impacts of climate change, representatives of vulnerable states have told judges at the international court of justice (ICJ)."
Source: Guardian, 12/03/2024
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"Trump Pick For US Health Agency Proposed ‘Herd Immunity’ During Covid"
"Choosing Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH signals return to controversial and scientifically questionable health policies"
Source: Guardian, 12/02/2024
"What Trump’s Tariffs Could Mean For American Energy"
"President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to slap new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China could inflate the cost of producing and buying energy in almost all forms, possibly sending gasoline prices surging and the U.S. energy industry into a tailspin."
Source: E&E News, 12/02/2024
New Agriculture Secretary Will Have to Reckon With Climate Change
"Exactly where Brooke Rollins stands on agricultural policy is unclear, but her positions on fossil fuels and climate change are explicit."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/02/2024
"How Will Trump’s Covid Contrarians Handle the Next Pandemic?"
"President-elect Donald J. Trump had already succeeded in rattling the nation’s public health and biomedical establishment by the time he announced on Tuesday that he had picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health. But amid growing fears of a deadly bird flu pandemic, perhaps no one was more rattled than experts in infectious disease."
Source: NYTimes, 12/02/2024
Trump Rejection of Transition Deal Adds Wrinkle to Its Transparency Pledges
"The refusal by President-elect Donald J. Trump’s team to sign a transition agreement with the General Services Administration means that, despite the team’s pledges to abide by several transparency customs of presidential handovers, it isn’t legally bound to follow through on its promises."
Source: NYTimes, 12/02/2024
"Exxon Lobbyist Investigated Over Hack-And-Leak Of Environmentalist Emails"
"The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s biggest critics, according to three people familiar with the matter."
Source: Reuters, 12/02/2024
Will Trump Use Kash Patel To Attack His Critics And The First Amendment?
"The nomination of Kash Patel to serve as America’s next FBI director is a warning shot across the bow for journalists — as Donald Trump’s threats to attack the First Amendement intensifies."
Source: Independent, 12/02/2024
